Chief Operating Officer
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About the Role
Blue Guardian is seeking a Chief Operating Officer to work directly with the CEO in scaling a fast-growing prop trading firm. The role requires deep knowledge of proprietary trading, evaluation models, and risk management.
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Responsibilities
- Work directly with the CEO to execute company strategy and business objectives
- Oversee day to day company operations across multiple departments
- Build, optimize, and scale internal systems, processes, and workflows
- Lead and manage department heads and senior team members
- Drive operational efficiency, accountability, and performance throughout the organization
- Assist in hiring, building, and scaling high performing teams
- Monitor key business metrics and provide strategic recommendations to leadership
- Collaborate closely with product, marketing, finance, risk, and support teams
- Identify growth opportunities and operational improvements
- Support decision making through data analysis, reporting, and business intelligence
- Ensure company initiatives are executed effectively and on schedule
- Represent the company professionally with partners, vendors, and key stakeholders
Requirements
- Extensive experience within the proprietary trading industry is REQUIRED
- Strong understanding of prop firm operations, evaluation programs, trader psychology, payouts, risk management, and customer lifecycle
- Previous experience in a senior leadership, operational, or executive role
- Experience building, recruiting, and managing teams
- Proven ability to scale systems, processes, and operations in a fast growing company
- Strong commercial and strategic mindset
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills
- Native English speaker
- Based in Dubai or willing to relocate immediately
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Role Overview
- Blue Guardian is seeking a highly driven and experienced Chief Operating Officer (COO) to work directly alongside the Founder/CEO as his right hand person.
- This is a critical leadership role for someone who understands the prop trading industry inside and out and can help scale a fast growing company from both an operational and strategic perspective.
- We are looking for a proven operator with deep knowledge of proprietary trading, trader behavior, evaluation models, risk management concepts, and the operational challenges of running a prop firm.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with the CEO to execute company strategy and business objectives.
- Oversee day to day company operations across multiple departments.
- Build, optimize, and scale internal systems, processes, and workflows.
- Lead and manage department heads and senior team members.
- Drive operational efficiency, accountability, and performance throughout the organization.
- Assist in hiring, building, and scaling high performing teams across operations, customer support, marketing, finance, and other departments.
- Monitor key business metrics and provide strategic recommendations to leadership.
- Collaborate closely with product, marketing, finance, risk, and support teams to improve business performance.
- Identify growth opportunities and operational improvements.
- Support decision making through data analysis, reporting, and business intelligence.
- Ensure company initiatives are executed effectively and on schedule.
- Represent the company professionally with partners, vendors, and key stakeholders when required.
Requirements
- Extensive experience within the proprietary trading industry is REQUIRED.
- Strong understanding of prop firm operations, evaluation programs, trader psychology, payouts, risk management, and customer lifecycle.
- Previous experience in a senior leadership, operational, or executive role.
- Experience building, recruiting, and managing teams.
- Proven ability to scale systems, processes, and operations in a fast growing company.
- Strong commercial and strategic mindset.
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills.
- Native English speaker.
- Highly organized, proactive, and execution focused.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
- Based in Dubai or willing to relocate immediately.
Ideal Candidate
- Preferably a business minded individual with a strong track record of achievement.
- Has worked directly within a prop firm, brokerage, trading company, or closely related financial business.
- Understands the industry at an expert level and can contribute strategically from day one.
- Has experience recruiting, managing, and developing high performing teams.
- Thrives under responsibility and enjoys building companies.
- Wants to grow with the business long term rather than viewing the role as a short term opportunity.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership and accountability.
- Capable of acting as a trusted advisor and partner to the CEO.
KPIs
- Operational efficiency and scalability
- Department performance and accountability
- Successful hiring and team development
- Revenue and business growth support
- Process improvement and execution
- Strategic initiative delivery
- Employee retention and organizational performance
Location
- Dubai, UAE (on site)
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